- 1a person who is emotional and has a lot of imagination, and who has ideas and hopes that may not be realistic an incurable romantic He was a romantic at heart and longed for adventure.
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- 2Romantic a writer, a musician, or an artist who writes, etc. in the style of romanticism
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